Divorce

No-fault divorce is a moral obscenity. When there are no children involved, you have one partner dealing a crushing, permanently life scaring blow to the other. Where children are involved, you have nothing less that emotional child abuse taking place. Please notice that I am only talking about no-fault divorce, although any divorce is emotionally devastating to children. To use an analogy of a few days ago, if all of the tears shed by all of the children because of divorce were to be stored up in bottles, we could pour those bottles out and create a seventh great lake. The landscape of the American continent would be forever altered by these immense new bodies of water. School children would have to learn two more names when memorizing the great lakes: Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake of Tears of Broken Hearted Women, and Lake of Tears of Broken Hearted Children.

Adultery

Adultery is a form of extreme emotional cruelty. No one would have anything to do with me if I went home and beat the daylights out of my wife and kids. We no longer tolerate that kind of physical violence. But for some insane reason, most people wouldn’t have a major problem with me if I cheated on my wife. Her friends would be very upset, but I would not be viewed as a moral cripple the same way I would be if I beat my family up physically. Understand this, if you cut your wife, your kids bleed. Today we sneer at a (supposedly) self righteous society that would require a person wear a scarlet letter A in public as a punishment for adultery. Our diseased, morally crippled brains make us think we are more enlightened than that repressive society. If there is even an allegation of physical abuse against children the state rushes in and removes the children from the home pending an investigation. Why are we so uncaring about the emotional damage adultery does to spouses and children?

STD's

Sexually transmitted diseases can make you sterile, limit and inhibit sexual joy in marriage, and even kill you. If you get an STD that makes you sterile, that means that whatever else you do in your life, you will never collaborate with God in the creation of an immortal being. Billions of years after everything around us has crumbled to dust, our children will still exist in this universe. People with STD’s frequently pay a price for their diseases in their marriages. Certain sexual practices may no longer be safe, and sex may be painful during outbreaks of certain incurable viruses. Last, but not least, sex can kill you. AID’s is a great plague that has killed millions and is expected to result in an estimated fifty million orphans in Africa. But let’s be clear about this: this entire epidemic was optional. Millions of people would still be alive today if they had followed some simple instructions from the book of Leviticus. By the way, AID’s is a new disease. I wonder when we will have another new STD? I wonder if this new disease will be potentially fatal, and if it will spread readily through normal, heterosexual practices. If HIV could spread as easily as gonorrhea, the death toll by now would probably be in the 100’s of millions.

Fornication

Sex outside of marriage is a deeply depraved act. Women are designed to need a lifelong commitment from a man; this is due to the fact that throughout most of human history sex led to babies and a woman alone had no way to provide any quality of life for her children. In modern times sex does not always result in babies because of birth control, and the state, acting as a surrogate father, provides enough financial support for a woman alone to survive with her children. Your brain may understand that times have changed, but your emotional programming doesn’t. If all of the tears of all of the women who have thoughtlessly given themselves away time and time again to uncommitted, uncaring men were stored up in bottles, those bottles could be poured out to create a sixth great lake. Sex outside of marriage harms a man too; it coarsens his nature. But make no mistake about it, if it’s bad for a man it’s a screaming disaster for a woman. In a morally sane society, everyone would shun people who engaged in sex outside of marriage.

Relentless Love

Before we start looking at examples of moral insanity that we are culturally blinded to, let me say a healing word or two. Sin, by it’s very nature, is insane. In the original sin, Satan decided to rebel against a God who was omnipotent and omniscient. That’s just crazy; you’re going to loose. Since then, sin hasn’t gotten any more sane. And all of us are infected. I have committed some of these astonishing moral blunders I am going to describe in upcoming posts (no, I won’t tell you which ones or to what degree); so have you. I don’t write to condemn, I write to enlighten. If even one person can be saved from committing even one of these insane acts, then this blog will have served a good purpose. And if you have committed sins, no matter how terrible, never forget that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin and that the great God of love is relentlessly committed to making you whole.

George Washington

As a boy, George Washington grew up in a society where slavery was not only an accepted practice, but it was rationalized as a positive good. By the end of his life he had come to understand that slavery was morally indefensible, and arranged to have all of his slaves set free at the time of his death. But when he was a young man, it didn’t bother him. He accepted the rationalizations of his society, and as a result, he was blind to what should have been a glaringly obvious moral truth. What kinds of things are we blind to in our society today? What are we missing?

The Great Awakening

I believe that there is a Great Awakening coming that will totally transform our society. God knows:

-when the awakening will start
-when it will end
-every church that will participate
-every church that won't
-everyone who will be:
-saved
-restored from backsliding
-healed
-filled with the Spirit
-every attack of the enemy will make to hinder the work
-how to deal with these attacks
-how to transition into the awakening
-how to transition out of the awakening

It is not our responsibility to make things happen. What we have to do is to yield ourselves to God so that He can use us in accomplishing His purposes.